Just perfect. This was the song that made me buy everything Nick Cave had recorded. I think it's about star-crossed love, about everything being against you. That third verse is tremendous - "the sky will throw thunderbolts & sparks/ straight at you". That's not an accident, it's personal - something is out to destroy them. But he doesn't care. This has got to be one of the most powerful love songs ever written.
Just perfect. This was the song that made me buy everything Nick Cave had recorded. I think it's about star-crossed love, about everything being against you. That third verse is tremendous - "the sky will throw thunderbolts & sparks/ straight at you". That's not an accident, it's personal - something is out to destroy them. But he doesn't care. This has got to be one of the most powerful love songs ever written.